{"id":69450,"date":"2026-06-04T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=69450"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:41:12","slug":"behind-the-scenes-a-secret-cable-from-diplomatic-foreign-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=69450","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes- A Secret Cable from &#8220;Diplomatic Foreign Ministry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\" style=\"text-align: left;\" id=\"exclusive-jnews-lebanon\">Exclusive JNews Lebanon<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">JNews Lebanon has learned that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants has received a top-secret report from a Lebanese embassy in a capital responsible for the negotiations file. The report warns that Israel has begun drafting an unannounced legal annex that it intends to impose through mediators. This annex would prohibit the reconstruction of any demolished facilities or buildings in the region south of the Litani River without prior review by a strict international oversight committee, to ensure that no tunnels or fortifications exist beneath them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nRead also <a href=\"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=69334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Behind the scenes- The Secret Settlements List<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=69445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read this article in Arabic (Click Here)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Exclusive JNews Lebanon JNews Lebanon has learned that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants has received a top-secret report from a Lebanese embassy in a capital responsible for the negotiations file. The report warns that Israel has begun drafting an unannounced legal annex that it intends to impose through mediators. This annex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow0Jy2DA:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9412],"tags":[9446,9971,9967,9519,9970,9969,9663,9606,9968,9966],"class_list":["post-69450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","tag-ceasefire-talks","tag-diplomatic-secrets","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-hezbollah-tunnels","tag-international-oversight","tag-israeli-annex","tag-jnews-exclusive","tag-litani-river","tag-reconstruction-ban","tag-secret-cable"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Behind the scenes- A Secret Cable from &quot;Diplomatic Foreign Ministry&quot; - JNews Lebanon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Exclusive JNews Lebanon uncovering a top-secret Foreign Ministry report on an unannounced Israeli banning reconstruction south of the Litani\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jnewslebanon.com\/?p=69450\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Behind the scenes- A Secret Cable from &quot;Diplomatic Foreign Ministry&quot; - 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